Saturday, July 2, 2005

Potato Curry for chapathi or bread

Potato- 2, big
big onion- 2, medium
green chilli- 4
curry leaves- according to taste
wash and cut all the three into small pieces and put it aside.
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turmaric powder and sombu powder ( very small proportion)
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Preparation

Heat a pan, pour oil, add mustard seed.when it burst, add a little perum jeeraham(sombu thool) and turmaric powder, add the cut vegetables and saute well and cook in small flame. when it is half cooked add some coconut milk diluted with water and cook well in medium flame until it is well cooked. Mash the potatoes and add some more coconut milk and stir well. add salt to taste.

Soft chappathi

Mix the wheat flour with boiled water. (first, use a spoon to mix it and and then slowly to mould the flour by wearing a gloves)
Take small amount from the moulded dough and flatten it like a pappadam.
Heat a dosa kallu and in medium heat and put the chapathi on it and
when I see bubbles forming, I turn it to the other side and press it little with a wooden thavi. It makes the chappathi like a pappadam.

I paraththuka the chappaththi and chuduka at the same time. I put aside a plastic pathram which is heat resistant and will put chappaththi in it and cover it with the lid, so the chappathi will become more softer and well cooked at the serving time.

It took more than half an hour to finish the work. But I got chappathi for the whole family for two days. I keep the rest in fridge and take it when necessary, re-heat it in microwave and serve

green bean koott

This is a healthy food for daily use ( not a presentable item for party for its simplicity)

Cook green beans together with 3 or 4 small onions and a little manjal thool and salt in a pressure cooker.

Heat oil in a pan.
Add mustard,
Add some shredded small onions(4 or 5)
saute well,
add Cumin Powder (half tea spoon);
Turmeric Powder ( half tea spoon) ;
and Chilly Powder( half tea spoon)
and curry leaves( as much as you want- for it is good for health)
mix it all and immediately ( before it get burned), add the cooked green beans in it and mix well. and heat it in a low flame until all the ingredience blended well in the green beans.

Vegetable mix

Ingredience

Cauliflower,
Broncolli
carrot
Capsicum
big onion
green chilli
garlic
jeera thool,
manjal thool
salt
Method
Cut all the vegetables into small pieces and put aside.
Heat 1 tbl spoon oil and add mustard seeds
When all the seeds break, add shredded big onion and saute well
Add the green chilli, garlic
When it becomes tender, add some manjal thool (less than a quarter tea spoon) and cumin powder (quarter tea spoon) in it saute a little,
Add vegetables and mix well
Cook in medium heat until all the vegetables become tender.